Integrating with AWS Redshift

As I keep on saying, this is a data era and every piece of data keeps on telling us something. Acting on this need, Amazon has introduced Redshift, which is a data warehouse as a service that allows you to dump your data on cloud with minimum cost. Redshift has power query language that allows us to drill TBs and PBs of data in seconds. It helps users to analyze data cheaper and faster.

Now, you must be wondering how this tool could help someone who has his application database as DynamoDB. Well, the answer is quite simple, most of the organization tries to keep their application database size easily controllable. This means that they tend to purge or archive old/stale data periodically. In such cases, it is good to have a data warehousing solution in cloud itself. So, you can keep your application live data on DynamoDB and use Redshift to dump old data to archive and analyze.

Unlike DynamoDB, Redshift is a SQL-based data warehousing tool. It comes with a powerful...